PAKISTAN: West Meets East

Pakistan is run by a leadership which
professes democracy but feels dragged toward dictatorship. Eight months
ago, faced with public resentment against the ruling Moslem League,
Governor General Ghulam Mohammed dissolved the Constituent Assembly and
took over power for himself. Last month he called on the six provincial
legislatures to elect representatives to a new Assembly. The result
last week: a heavy defeat for the Moslem League.

Though it won more Assembly seats than any other party (25 out of 72),
it failed to win a majority for the first time in Pakistan's eight
years as a nation. The Moslem...